Senior Software Development Engineer, Workday
US Federal
$153.6-230.4k
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Enterprise management cloud platform
Job no longer available
Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$153.6-230.4k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining software systems in a production environment
- 5+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot
- Experience designing scalable backend services or frameworks used by other engineers
- Hands-on experience with service monitoring, observability tools, and incident response
- Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture
Desirable
- Experience working in a platform team or building internal developer tools
- Familiarity with frontend architecture and how UI and backend services intersect
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
- A passion for improving developer experience and reducing toil
- Strong communication skills and experience working across teams and functions
- Ability to drive consensus on architectural decisions across diverse collaborators
What the job involves
- We’re the core engine behind UI at Workday — the UI Platform team. Our mission is to empower product developers to build fast, scalable, and resilient user experiences. We do this by designing and maintaining the foundational services, libraries, and frameworks used across our entire product surface
- As part of the UI Platform department, our team owns essential backend services and developer tooling, while also partnering closely with other engineering teams to drive service health, observability, and scalability improvements
- We’re engineers who think like product developers — focused on usability, performance, and long-term maintainability
- This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native)
- As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you’ll be at the intersection of platform and product
- You’ll help build scalable services and frameworks that power the UI experience, and you’ll work alongside other platform teams to improve reliability and service health
- You’ll collaborate closely with other teams to define standards, guide architectural choices, and contribute your expertise on building resilient, high-performing systems
- This role is a mix of hands-on development, technical leadership, and cross-team collaboration
Application process
- Posting End Date: 9/22/2025
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
Workday has acquired and paired up with many other companies to keep expanding its offering. In 2021, it purchased the employee feedback platform Peakon in response to the growing need for managers to be able to survey workers and collect satisfaction data without face-to-face meetings. The company has also bought and developed many financial tools and HR management tools.
The company’s goal is to provide end-to-end back office services and while there are other providers, such as UKG Pro and Ceridian HCM, Workday’s broad offering helps them to stand out. Though it faced a tough global market in 2023 and has shed some of its headcount, Workday has seen a 6.5% gain in value in the first quarter of 2024. It is now focusing on growth and developing the AI capabilities of its platform. .
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Vision and dental insurance
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Virtual primary care
- Flexible time-off policy
- Global mental health resources
- Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
- Global well-being days
- $25k fertility/family planning benefits
- North Star financial wellness
- Retirement funds and matching
- 401k plan
- On-site health clinic (Pleasanton office)
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(CEO)Worked for Morgan Stanley for 3 years and took a Stanford MBA, before spending almost 6 years at Oracle as SVP. Co-founded Workday in 2005 while working as a Greylock Advisory Partner.
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